The Official Work Pictures Thread
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spankywheatjeans
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Predrilling is always highly recommended when working with vertical grain old growth redwood. I mill a lot of vertical grain lumber and think it is some of the most beautiful wood on gods green earth, but attention needs to be payed when working with it.....
SeanKroll
Treehouser
Is vertical grain like quarter-sawn?
spankywheatjeans
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Technically quarter sawn, rift sawn, and straight grain are different but I like to keep it easy and generally refer to all as VG....
Generally when I am breaking down a log I will produce VG, flat sawn, and post/beam material from the log...Seem to be the most effective and efficient for me, and also offers lumber for various applications. Sometime I will get an order for all VG or all flat sawn and will break the log down accordingly..
Generally when I am breaking down a log I will produce VG, flat sawn, and post/beam material from the log...Seem to be the most effective and efficient for me, and also offers lumber for various applications. Sometime I will get an order for all VG or all flat sawn and will break the log down accordingly..
spankywheatjeans
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Thanks stig. Sometimes I am like a kid in a candy store when I am milling... I swear I spend more time admiring the lumber than actually working...
These old growth redwood shake/shingles are getting pretty scarce these days, so legit old growth shakes and split rails are bringing big $ these days. I am very fortunate to have a pretty nice stash of shingle worthy bolts laying around here, and I find the process extremely calming and meditative....I do not sell shake/shingles and only produce them for myself and folks in my immediate circle... I'm weird that way..
I apologize if I have posted this pic before, but I figured you would get a kick out of it.. I managed to salvage some logs (this one is a solid 130-140 ft from the stump) from a huge windfall and turn them into split rails and lumber for a local ranch. What a pain in the ass that was....never again..
spankywheatjeans
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Like yourself I am a sucker for some beautiful straight grain. I got into a patch of beautiful blue stain Fir last year and mill it up to use for VG Fir floors in a house I will soon be building for my lovely bride..It all stickered and stacked and this summer it will go to a fella down the coast who is gonna T&G it and plane one side for me...Can't wait to see the finished product-
Sorry but I couldn't help myself. Some more chocolate brown redwood goodness for ya-
Burnham
Woods walker
Lovely.
Yo Spank--Great pics and I learned a lot from this diagram, gracias amigo
BTW, is it 'strait' grain or was that a typo and it should be 'straight' grain?
spankywheatjeans
Banned
Straight, Strait? I have always spelled it straight, but what the hell do I know? ... got that strait?
Raj
TreeHouser
Some serious work going on out there. All I have is cutting down some bushes and stump grinding.
Merle Nelson
TreeHouser
Ha, all I've got is sitting on the couch and making my wife mad. Peter I cant believe what you get done with your grinder. Those are big stumps for that.
Those shakes and pictures of old growth are things of beauty.
Those shakes and pictures of old growth are things of beauty.
Merle Nelson
TreeHouser
And SWJ the guys that frequent the milling forum but maybe don't get to this one would just drool over a picture or two of that old growth.
I have always spelled it that way too.
Then I saw your diagram and figured I'd been wrong all those years, so I changed it.
Commies are easily confused, you know.
pantheraba
More biners!!!
More than one way to tie a knot, skin a cat or spell some words. Homonyms will get you everytime.
spankywheatjeans
Banned
Thanks stig. Now I have something else to worry about..
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Is easily confused a symptom of being a commie, or does being easily confused make you more susceptible and prone to becoming a commie?
Is there a pill I can take, or am I doomed to being a flaming socialist?
spankywheatjeans
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Cool project we did for a local community earlier this winter... Broke down old rail car Redwood bridge removed. new footings dug and poured, new abutments dug and poured, new steel work to tie into the new abutment, and a brand spanking new Redwood bridge made from timbers we milled on sight, from a couple of Redwoods we harvested on site. One stop shopping....
spankywheatjeans
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I wreaked the Reds well over a yr ago and we got right on the milling.. Wood was stickered and stacked and allowed to dry for almost a year. The bridge project itself took a little over a month for me and one or two other men to build from start to finish, but we lost 4-5 days to rain during that period.
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spankywheatjeans
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Yea we were moving and shaking to try and beat the real rains that we knew would eventually show up. When we have wet winters it can get so muddy in here that getting much of anything done is damn near impossible. We were about halfway through when the real rains started showing up, but luckily all the dirt, concrete, and steel works was done and all we had left was the wood work, and bringing in base rock to dial in access on both sides.
